Table of Contents

Stories for Study: Neighbors, Raymond Carver. The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien. Everyday Use, Alice Walker.3. Plot and Structure: The Development and Organization of Stories.

Stories for Study: The Three Strangers, Thomas Hardy. What I Have Been Doing Lately, Jamaica Kincaid. Blue Winds Dancing, Tom Whitecloud.4. Characters: The People in Fiction.

Stories for Study: Barn Burning, William Faulkner. A Jury of Her Peers, Susan Glaspell. Shopping, Joyce Carol Oates. Two Kinds, Amy Tan.5. Point of View: The Position or Stance of the Narrator or Speaker.

Stories for Study: An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Ambrose Bierce. The Song of Songs, Ellen Gilchrist. The Lottery, Shirley Jackson. The Old Chief Mshlanga, Doris Lessing. How to Become a Writer, Lorrie Moore.6. Setting: The Background of Place, Objects, and Culture in Stories.

Stories for Study: The Fox and the Grapes, Aesop. The Myth of Atalanta, Anonymous. Unfinished Masterpieces, Anita Scott Coleman. Young Goodman Brown, Nathaniel Hawthorne. The Loons, Margaret Laurence. The Parable of the Prodigal Son, St. Luke. The Hammon and the Beans, Américo Paredes. The Chrysanthemums, John Steinbeck. The Thimble, Michel Tremblay.9. Idea or Theme: The Meanings and the Messages in Fiction.

Poems for Study: My Last Duchess, Robert Browning. Because I Could Not Stop for Death, Emily Dickinson. Catch, Robert Francis. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, Robert Frost. The Man He Killed, Thomas Hardy. Eagle Poem, Joy Harjo. The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner, Randall Jarrell. Ogichidag, Jim Northrup. Where Children Live, Naomi Shihab Nye. A Christmas Carol, Christina Rossetti. Sonnet 55: Not Marble, Nor the Gilded Monument, William Shakespeare. True Love, Judith Viorst. It Is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free, William Wordsworth.12. Words: The Building Blocks of Poetry.The Naked and the Nude, Robert Graves.

Poems for Study: The Tyger, William Blake. Sonnets from the Portuguese, No. 14: If Thou Must Love Me, Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Kubla Khan, Samuel Taylor Coleridge. I Know I'm Not Sufficiently Obscure, Ray Durem. Preludes, T.S. Eliot. Channel Firing, Thomas Hardy. The Pulley, George Herbert. Spring, Gerard Manley Hopkins. A Time Past, Denise Levertov. The Voice You Hear When You Read Silently, Thomas Lux. Photos of a Salt Mine, P.K. Page. In a Station of the Metro, Ezra Pound. Sonnet 130: My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun, William Shakespeare. Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802, William Wordsworth.14. Figures of Speech, or Metaphorical Language: A Source of Depth and Range in Poetry.On First Looking into Chapman's Homer, John Keats.Bright Star, John Keats. Let Us Take the Road, John Gay.

Poems for Study: One Art, Elizabeth Bishop. We Real Cool, Gwendolyn Brooks. Sonnet, Billy Collins. Buffalo Bill's, E.E. Cummings. To the Memory of Mr. Oldham, John Dryden. Desert Places, Robert Frost. Nikki-Rosa, Nikki Giovanni. Museum, Robert Hass. Virtue, George Herbert. Mantle, William Heyen. Swan and Shadow, John Hollander. God's Grandeur, Gerard Manley Hopkins. Ode to a Nightingale, John Keats. The Sound of the Sea, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. In Bondage, Claude McKay. When I Consider How My Light Is Spent, John Milton. Annabel Lee, Edgar Allan Poe. Ballad of Birmingham, Dudley Randall. The Waking, Theodore Roethke. Sonnet 73: That Time of Year Thou May'st in Me Behold, William Shakespeare. Ode to the West Wind, Percy Bysshe Shelley. Women, May Swenson. Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night, Dylan Thomas. Reapers, Jean Toomer. The Shape of History, Charles H. Webb. Poetics Against the Angel of Death, Phyllis Webb. The Dance, William Carlos Williams. The Solitary Reaper, William Wordsworth.17. Symbolism and Allusion: Windows to Wide Expanses of Meaning.Snow, Virginia Scott.

Poems by Emily Dickinson: After Great Pain, a Formal Feeling Comes (Poem 341). Because I Could Not Stop for Death (Poem 712). The Bustle in a House (Poem 1078). The Heart Is the Capital of the Mind (Poem 1354). I Cannot Live with You (Poem 640). I Died for Beauty-but Was Scarce (Poem 449). I Felt a Funeral in My Brain (Poem 280). I Heard a Fly Buzz-When I Died (Poem 465). I Like to See It Lap the Miles (Poem 585). I'm Nobody! Who Are You? (Poem 288). I Never Lost as Much But Twice (Poem 49). I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed (Poem 214). Much Madness Is Divinest Sense (Poem 435). My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close (Poem 1732). My Triumph Lasted Till the Drums (Poem 1227). One Need Not Be a Chamber-To Be Haunted (Poem 670). Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers (Poem 216). Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church (Poem 324). The Soul Selects Her Own Society (Poem 303). Success Is Counted Sweetest (Poem 67). Tell All the Truth but Tell It Slant (Poem 1129). There's a Certain Slant of Light (Poem 258). This World Is Not Conclusion (Poem 501). Wild Nights-Wild Nights! (Poem 249).

25. Writing and Documenting the Research Essay.26. Critical Approaches Important in the Study of Literature.27. Taking Examinations on Literature.28. Comparison-Contrast and Extended Comparison-Contrast: Learning by Seeing Literary Works Together.Appendix I: MLA Recommendations for Documenting Electronic Sources.Appendix II: Brief Biographies of the Poets in Part III.Glossary of Literary Terms.Index of Authors, Titles, and First Lines.